Re: Status of Subsystems

[Sebastian Duda <sebastian.duda@fau.de>]

Hi,

below is a list of files explicitly mentioned twice (or more) in the 
MAINTAINERS file.

Kind regards
Sebastian

On 21.08.19 14:10, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 20.08.19 19:15, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> There are some files which have no official
>> owner, and there are also some files which may be modified by more
>> than one subsystem.
> 
> hmm, wouldn't it be better to alway have explicit maintainers ?
> 
> I recall some discussion few weeks ago on some of my patches, where it
> turned out that amm acts as fallback for a lot of code that doesn't have
> a maintainer.
> 
> @Sebastian: maybe you could also create reports for quickly identifying
> those cases.
> 
>> We certainly don't talk about "inheritance" when we talk about
>> maintainers and sub-maintainers. 
> 
> What's the exact definition of the term "sub-maintainer" ?
> 
> Somebody who's maintaining some defined part of something bigger
> (eg. a driver within some subsystem, some platform within some
> arch, etc) or kinda deputee maintainer ?
> 
>> Furthermore, the relationships,
>> processes, and workflows between a particular maintainer and their
>> submaintainers can be unique to a particular maintainer.
> 
> Can we somehow find some (semi-formal) description for those
> relationships and workflows, so it's easier to learn about them
> when some is new to some particular area ?
> 
> (I'd volounteer maintaining such documentation, if the individual
> maintainers feed me the necessary information ;-)).
> 
> 
> --mtx
> 

Documentation/security/keys/trusted-encrypted.rst
drivers/power/supply/bq27xxx_battery.c
tools/power/acpi/
include/linux/lockd/
net/sunrpc/
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c
drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/atmel-usart.txt
Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1563
include/linux/hippidevice.h
Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst
include/linux/vga*
fs/nfs_common/
include/linux/pm.h
drivers/crypto/virtio/
include/linux/mlx5/
drivers/media/tuners/tda8290.*
drivers/crypto/nx/Kconfig
arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock-abi.h
drivers/scsi/53c700*
fs/lockd/
drivers/staging/iio/
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c
Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst
include/acpi/
drivers/staging/greybus/spi.c
drivers/base/power/
include/uapi/linux/media.h
include/uapi/linux/cciss*.h
include/linux/suspend.h
include/uapi/linux/uvcvideo.h
include/trace/events/xdp.h
drivers/staging/greybus/spilib.c
include/linux/cfag12864b.h
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/renesas.yaml
include/linux/soc/renesas/
Documentation/scsi/NinjaSCSI.txt
include/linux/sunrpc/
drivers/crypto/nx/Makefile
drivers/gpu/vga/
include/linux/platform_data/i2c-omap.h
drivers/power/supply/bq27xxx_battery_i2c.c
drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ingenic/
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-ali1563.c
drivers/soc/renesas/
include/uapi/linux/sunrpc/
drivers/md/Makefile
include/linux/power/bq27xxx_battery.h
include/linux/dmaengine.h
drivers/gpio/gpio-intel-mid.c
drivers/dma/
include/uapi/linux/ivtv*
kernel/power/
drivers/gpio/gpio-ich.c
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.*
include/linux/netdevice.h
include/linux/mlx4/
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.*
drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/
drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
include/uapi/linux/meye.h
include/uapi/linux/netdevice.h
arch/arm/plat-omap/
include/linux/freezer.h
include/linux/cciss*.h
Documentation/gpu/
drivers/md/Kconfig
include/linux/cpu_cooling.h
include/linux/pwm_backlight.h
arch/mips/include/asm/mach-loongson64/